Have fun storming the castle!

Sleep? I miss sleep. Must try for the sleep.

Also, requesting interview~ma at 7ish tomorrow morning -- mostly from the East Coast and UnAmerican Bitches, since all the West Coasters will probably still be either in bed or gronking.

OK - gronk anyway. and interview~ma!

good luck w/your meeting ND.

so sorry about the fire VW.

I will have a better day than yesterday. will not do any projects for people at the last minute. will take a walk at lunch and try to find a good yoga place. will try to forget that yesterday I had to tell my boss that all of the admissions material had been printed with the wrong admission year. (not my project, and I hadn't seen them until yesterday. but still.)

Robin, your house is great!

Debet, I wish I could give you my kittens. They all need homes (but prettly clearly are too far away)

Laga, all I heard about the ferry guys is that they were supposedly looking at safety/escape plans and taking pictures. And that some news organizations thought there was no real reasonable suspicion of them having done something wrong so they weren't going to show their pictures, while others were supporting the FBI's deciion to publish their pictures and ask for information.

Belated Birthday Wishes to the Birthday Twins!

ION: at work. Someone has absconded with our order of 500 condoms!!! We suspect the USPS, since their tracking says "delivered at 6:14pm" ... but our offices close at 6pm daily! IMHO, the USPS "tracking" site is a pile of bull, since it doesn't list who, if anyone, SIGNED for the bloody thing. :: breathe :: We don't need them until next week. :: breathe ::

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...Clearly I am the only one who does not know what your job is.

I guess Bordello is too obvious?

Interview~ma for JZ!

DH's employer seems to have given us our Hawaii per diem a week before we leave. Nice.

Anyone know anything about Steven's Point, WI? DH might be looking at a job there. He got a really interesting email from a recruiter that would look like a 50% increase in pay PLUS a signing bonus.

Love your house, Robin! Built-in cabinetry, stained glass, just tons of pretty. I can't wait to see what it looks like when you and your DH have filled it up with your personalities.

I'm completely gronky, and increasingly doubtful about this job. The recruiter indicated that they want someone, ideally, to start around seven every morning. Which... no, I really don't see how that would be possible once Hec is working again, with the two working adults and the baby in daycare a mile west of us and the preteen in middle school 18 miles east. I'm going to go and do my best to at least get an offer, but the schedule's just different enough from everyone else's that it seems nigh unworkable.

Plus, the woman I interviewed with last week was incredibly nice but also full of mournful wist about her ex-boss, whom she loved and who retired when the little local company was bought out by the giant entity. All her spark and enthusiasm and glow came when she talked about the old guard, none from her discussion of the new folks (not that she had anything bad to say about them; they just didn't make her glow).

Bleah. I feel weirdly obligated and chickenshit about saying no to them if my gut instinct is unchanged after today's interviews. Bother!

The ~ma is good, though. Invisible Buffista hands on my shoulders, steadying me.

Break a leg, JZ!

I was just coming to see if JZ had posted a report!

I'm sorry it sounds not-so-good. Still sending ~ma, but changing it to wisdom~ma.

I wasn't going to look at information on the fire until I'd had a cup of coffee and felt more with it to deal with whatever I found out. But, my sweetie cousin had e-mailed me to see how I was doing, and she reported the latest news. So, I went looking. More injuries being reported, but no more deaths. There hasn't been a firefighter killed in the line of duty in Boston since 1994. It's really awful.

I have to drive by the fire today to run my errands. I expect a full crying breakdown when I actually see it. It's weird. I didn't think something like this would hit me so hard, but I've really become attached to this neighborhood, and these people feel like my people. I go by that firehouse all the time. It's next door to my gym, and I have to walk by it to get to my bus. There are always firefighters out in front, even in the winter time, chatting with whoever walks by. They really are part of the community. And, it's gonna take some healing for the whole community, I suspect.

Also, I REALLY hope it turns out not to be arson. There's been a rash of arson in Jamaica Plain over the last couple of years. I'd hate to hear that it's spread over here.